Is Addiction a Chronic Brain Disease?

Addiction as a chronic brain disease continues to be debated, but a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine asserts that neuroscience supports addiction as a chronic brain disease.

Not everyone views addiction as a chronic brain disease. Marc Lewis, Ph.D., neuroscientist and former addict, declares in his book, “The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease,” that addiction is the “neural circuitry of desire” and the “detrimental result of habitual behaviors”. Read an interview at The Fix.